Instructions for Specific Groups

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Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, love, and perseverance.

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Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.

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In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,

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to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.

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In the same way, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.

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In everything, show yourself to be an example by doing good works. In your teaching show integrity, dignity,

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and wholesome speech that is above reproach, so that anyone who opposes us will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

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Slaves are to submit to their own masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,

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not stealing from them, but showing all good faith, so that in every respect they will adorn the teaching about God our Savior.

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